Monday, May 26, 2014

A Chinese fishing vessel rammed and sank a Vietnamese fishing
ship with 10 fishermen on board in the Vietnamese territorial waters on Monday . All the crewmembers were rescued by other Vietnamese vessels.

At 4 pm May 26, about 40 Chinese fishing boats surrounded a group of
Vietnamese fishing ships in an area about 17 nautical miles
south-southwest from the location where China’s oil rig Haiyang Shiyou 981 has been placed illegally since May 1.

.........lack of military history teaching is bad at the primary and secondary
levels of education, but even worse at the university level where any
focus on war itself is intentionally diminished. In an article by military historian Victor Davis Hanson he explains the results of a 2004 survey of the top 25 U.S. history departments:

When war does show up on university
syllabi, it’s often about the race, class, and gender of combatants and
wartime civilians. So a class on the Civil War will focus on the
Underground Railroad and Reconstruction, not on Chancellorsville and
Gettysburg. One on World War II might emphasize Japanese internment,
Rosie the Riveter, and the horror of Hiroshima, not Guadalcanal and
Midway.

Great works on war like Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War, Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage, and Carl Von Clausewitz’s On War are now utterly neglected.

The burying of military history in modern academia may be a result of
the generally anti-war views on college campuses, or a result of it not
fitting in with the overall ideological agenda, but regardless of the
specific excuse, it is a great disservice to those who want to be
educated about the consequences of human nature.

“In the true
history of this Army of Northern Virginia, which laid down its arms not
conquered, but wearied with victory, you have a record of deeds of
valor, of unselfish consecration to duty, and faithfulness in death,
which will teach our sons and our sons’ sons how to die for liberty. Let
us see to it that it shall be transmitted to them.”

Drawing depicts the Army of Northern Virginia stacking weapons in surrender. Image: National Park Service.

I’ll not forget the high school students who reenacted a Civil War
battle when I lived in Virginia. Some of the parents were concerned
their son or daughter might have to be a “damned Yankee.”

Actually that
brought a few laughs, because everyone realized it was a history lesson.

This week the Santa Clarita Valley International Charter School held a
Civil War reenactment. Some people were upset, thinking their son or
daughter could have to participate in something like this and they would
have to play the part of a Confederate soldier or citizen.

There were similar questions when I lived in Virginia – only my
friends there were worried that their children might have to portray a
“damned Yankee.”

An odd, deepwater fish washed ashore near Nags Head, N.C., this past
Monday and photos of its long profile and mean bite went viral.

Officials with Jennette’s Pier told CBS Affiliate WBTV
the fish—believed to be a lancefish—was alive when beachgoer Leif
Rasmussen found it. After taking a few photos, Rasmussen carried it back
into the ocean as far as he could walk and released it.

Well, that certainly didn’t take long. In the wake of the killing spree
in California in which 3 people were shot to death and 3 people were
stabbed to death, Democrats are already calling for additional federal
gun control laws. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation this morning.

No electricity. No running water. No
transportation. No phones. No housing. Barter and handout economy.
Martial Law. This is occupied Berlin, the British sector, in the spring,
of 1945. These were the survivers, with little more than the clothes on
their backs. The war ended for them with the cataclysmic Battle of
Berlin. Notice the stove built from loose bricks, the pile of firewood
and the repurposed gasmask container. We collected war surplus as
souvenirs, they recycled it into civilian necessities. Making cooking
pots from "Fritz" helmets was a cottage industry.
[1946 video] [1947 video ]

How to - Make a Survival Water Filter out of materials found along any river. Video, 10m 59s, at YouTube. Hat tip to Accept The Challenge.
Remus says: remember, this is only a filter, it yields clean but not
safe drinking water. Boiling the water will kill the microbes that
remain.

Police with armored vehicles
- First of all, returning veterans aren't the problem–militarized
police are. Second, if returning veterans did decide to take matters
into their own hands, if this idiot thinks that a bunch of fat ass,
unqualified, keystone cop goofballs like Amerikan police would be able
to handle combat veterans, he is living in fantasy world.Herschel Smith at captainsjournal.com

Constitutions are utterly worthless to restrain the
tyranny of government, unless it be understood that the people will by
force compel the government to keep within constitutional limits.
Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power except
the endurance of the people.Lysander Spooner, 1852, via people.duke.edu

One example why PTR moved to South Carolina
- The legislation made no differentiation between magazines being sold
by a manufacturer to the out-of-state market, and those owned by
Connecticut residents. PTR has more
than 100,000 20-round magazines in its warehouse area. Under
Connecticut’s absurd laws, each and every one would have to be serial
numbered and registered, with each magazine requiring a fingerprint and
photo ID of a PTR employee. It would have taken months, if not years, for the company to comply with just this one aspect of the law.Bob Owens at bearingarms.com

Wal-Mart could soon be unprofitable

Wal-Mart has hidden its financial problems from
the headlines because challenges are different around the world, masking
themselves in the overall picture. But when you dig between the
headlines you can see a company in serious trouble and could be the
latest in a long line of leading retailers to go from boom to bust in
the blink of an eye. Sales in the U.S. are beginning to struggle, but
overseas the company's profitability is in downright freefall says
Travis Hoium in this article, Walmart Is Falling Apart Before Our Eyes, at The Motley Fool.

Plausible deniability
- Our government is now dealing with the citizenry the same way that
the British dealt with the Nazis: treating them as an external
existential threat, spying on them, and taking pains to obfuscate the
source of the information that they use to target their attacks... This
isn't really shocking, given that I think that the government has long
been at war with the populace but it's still a somewhat stark
distillation of the trend.Clark at popehat.com

It ain't broken -
Vatican Radio is the world’s oldest transnational broadcasting network.
The equipment was installed by Marconi himself. And they’re still using
it. [Since February, 1931] Kathy Shaidle at takimag.com

After a police unit raided a tanning salon and massage parlor on the
north side of Chicago last summer during a prostitution investigation,
things got ugly quickly when they detained a frightened store manager
named Jianqing Klyzek.

While Klyzek sat on the floor in
handcuffs, an officer then proceeded to strike her from behind, while
another threatened to use an electronic taser gun on her “10 f**king
times” after which officers threatened Klyzek and members of her family.
All the while, a security camera quietly captured the events unfolding.

Footage shows cop ran a stop sign but arrested a sober victim for drunken driving.
“You’re not f**king American! I’ll put you in a UPS box and send you
back to wherever the f**k you came from,” one of the officers shouted at
Klyzek (an American citizen born in China).

“You’re here on our borrowed time,” he continued. “So mind your
f**king business before I shut this whole f**king place down….I’ll take
this building. You’ll be dead and your family will be dead,” according
to a transcription of the video provided for a federal civil rights lawsuit Klyzek brought against the city of Chicago and its police department on May 14.

“The Official Website of the North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission”

“Jefferson Davis: Unionist” will be the topic of NC WBTS Sesquicentennial Chair, Bernhard Thuersam, at 6PM on Tuesday, 3 June 2014 in the Allred Banquet
Room, K&W Cafeteria, I-40 Exit 143, Burlington, North Carolina – and
in observance of President Davis’s birthdate.

Mr.
Thuersam will also provide updates of the 2015 NC WBTS Sesquicentennial
series of unique and timely North Carolina living histories and reenactments in Fayetteville, Duplin, Averasborough, Bentonville and Greensboro: “Fields of Valor - Defending North Carolina – 1865.”

Supper is on your own – the Allred Banquet Room is in the rear of the Dining Room. Please email jvjnc44@yahoo.com for more information and directions. The sponsor of the event is the Col. Charles F. Fisher Camp, No. 813, Graham.

"I tried in all my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, and for 12 years, I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize the musket and fight our battle, unless you acknowledge our right to self-government.

We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination, we will have . . . Slavery never was an essential element. It was the only means of bringing other conflicting elements to an earlier culmination. It fired the musket which was already capped and loaded. There are essential differences between the North and the South that will, however this war may end, make them two nations . . ."

California’s strict gun laws proved to be no impediment to Elliot Roger, who had legally purchased three handguns,
multiple low-capacity magazines, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition
legally in advance of his horrific attacks in Isla Vista, California
Friday night that left six dead and 13 wounded.

A 16-year-old boy charged with
fatally shooting a Pennsylvania cab driver who didn't take his preferred
route was interviewed as a witness to a triple homicide in New Jersey
last year, police said.

Aazis Richardson was
charged with murder Friday night, hours after 47-year-old cab driver
Vincent Darbenzio was found shot twice in the head in Scranton. Police
said Richardson had complained that the driver was "taking the long way
and ripping him off."

Police said a woman at a
Scranton house had called the cab for Richardson, and they were able to
trace the call back to the residence.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.